Banbury Hot Spring
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Can you soak at Banbury Hot Spring?
No. Banbury Hot Spring is closed to visitors.
Seven miles from Buhl in Twin Falls County, Idaho, Banbury Hot Spring sits at low elevation for the state. The water is hot, nearly scalding, and the chemistry is current, sampled in 2022. Roadside, with the road around 250 feet away. Ownership and access are absent from the record.
Dry low country, mild on average. Under a foot of precipitation and a little over a foot of snow, so winter is less of an obstacle than it is in the mountains. The walk is negligible. That 2022 sample found alkaline water, low in dissolved solids. Nothing is recorded for land unit or campground.
Winter scores best by climate, and low snowfall makes winter practical here. The water is two degrees shy of the scalding line, so treat it as scalding. A careless hand will get burned. Ease in. Roadside access takes the walking out of the question. Camping and fees: nothing listed. The 2022 sample is recent by the standards of these records. Access status is blank.
Aircraft with laser scanners measured this ground to within inches. The scan strips out trees and buildings, leaving the bare shape of the land around Banbury Hot Spring.
- Setting
- Valley floor
- Gentle slopes rise on both sides.
- Highest ground nearby
- 202 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
A slice through the ground from west to east, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.
That's about 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 40% of the springs on this site.
Heat flow measures the warmth working its way up through the ground from deep inside the earth. Where it runs high, rain and snowmelt that seep down through cracks in the rock come back up hot.
See every spring on the geothermal heat map →
Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
The water at Banbury Hot Spring is slightly alkaline (pH 8.4) with 285 mg/L total dissolved solids.
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